Deaf Book Reviews Samples For Students

Deaf in America: Voices from Culture

Amazingly, almost all books devoted to description of deaf people’s world were written by hearing people. Deaf in America represents an alternative view of deaf people which significantly differs from books written by hearing people. The book reflects deaf people point of view since the authors of the book, Carol A. Padden and Tom L. Humphries, are deaf. The goal of the book was to write about deaf people in a new way, introduce their culture, and draw attention to their life.
Carol A. Padden is a professor of Department of Communication teaching in the University of California. She ...

Introduction

This book brings about the history of the deaf people in the United States in the nineteenth century and the developments that it underwent in recognition of the importance of language as a mode of communication in a way that is not only understood by the English speakers but one that also cuts across the broader spectrum of communication development and its impact both social and more fundamentally the work environment. Though little according to the book is known about the non white deaf people in the United States, a major irony is drawn from this since this was a time after colonization ...

The purpose of this essay is to analyze and explain the satire of religious thought that Gustave Flaubert has established in the form of Loulou, the parrot, whose body is an incarnation of the Holy Ghost. Through Loulou, Flaubert seems to be mocking all parrotry, and he makes the parrot mindlessly repeat all sorts of clichés. In fact, the parrot’s own name comprises of the repetition of the word “Lou.” There is a scene in the book when visitors to at the house are admiring Loulou. One of the visitors marvels why the parrot is not named ...

Conflict resolution and ethic Intervention Communication is a central part in the conflict and ethnic intervention. Conflict can be termed as a misunderstanding between two or more parties. In addition to that, conflict can further be grouped to gender conflict, social conflict, economic conflict or political conflict. Politically instigated conflicts are the most rampant in the world and are fuelled by politicians using propaganda via the social media. An example is the heightened level of conflict during the First World War, Second World War and the cold war. Conflict resolution calls either for negotiation among the parties or the intervention ...

The minds of assassins generally teem with oddities. For example, Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, was so devoted to his anarchist principles that he refused to talk to anyone whom he perceived to be an authority figure in the aftermath of the assassination. This included his court-appointed attorneys and the judge at his trial, which led to his attorneys attempting to secure a finding of insanity but ended up exasperating the jury, which only required an hour of deliberations to find him guilty of first-degree murder and sentence him to the electric chair. When he finally said ...